Monkey King Staff

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Subject: Monkey King Staff January 11th 2010, 11:16 pm

A long time ago, I saw some chinese opera that featured the Monkey King (Sun Wukong). The performer produced a thin, chrome staff from seemingly nowhere, as per the King's trademark weapon, by flicking his wrist. I'm guessing the staff was similar to a measuring tape in that he had it in his hand coiled and when he flung it, the spine formed and the staff stayed in place. The only problem is, even a stiffer, heavier metal than a normal measuring tape would bend due to all the swinging around.

Ideas on how it is made? I haven't found anything similar on the internet. I was small at the time and I could be mistaken.

http://www.shaolin.org/answers/ans08b/monkey-god11.jpg

For those not familiar with Sun Wukong, he was featured in the recent movie, The Forbidden Kingdom,

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There's two kinds of people in this world when you boil it all down.
You've got your 'talkers' and you've got your 'doers'.
Most people are just talkers, all they got is talk. But when all is said and done, it's the doers who change this world. And when they do that, they change us. And thats why we never forget them...
So which one are you? Do you just talk about it or do you stand up and do something about it? Because believe you me, all the rest of it is just bullshit.

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